re: #50 SixDegrees

Agree on both counts. To my eyes and ears, The Family has become a convenient boogey man whose bona fides are thin, at best. And if they are, indeed, some uber-powerful group of invisible overlords who wield powers beyond our ken, well, we’re never going to find out about them anyway.

Interesting, that Harpers article linked to above certainly misses the fact that a good number of Democrats have also been associated with this group at one time or another…

The following politicians are among those who have publicly acknowledged attending prayer groups or are documented as
having done so:[9]

Secretary of State and former Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)
Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.)
Senator Tom Coburn (R-Ok.)
Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.)
Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.)
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Ok.)
Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Senator Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)
Representative Randy Forbes (R-Va.)
Representative Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.)
Representative Joe Pitts (R-Pa.)
Representative Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)
Representative Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.)
Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va.)
former Senator and Vice President Al Gore (D-Tn.)
former Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.)
former Senator Don Nickles (R-Ok.)
former Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Il.)
former Senator Jennings Randolph (D-W.V.)
former Senator John Glenn (D-Ohio)
former Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Ma.)
former Representative Steve Largent (R-Ok.)
former Representative Chip Pickering (R-Miss.)
former Representative Tom Lantos (D-Ca.)
Maine Governor and former Representative John Baldacci (D-Me.)
South Carolina Governor and former Representative Mark Sanford (R-S.C.)
former Ambassador and Representative Tony P. Hall (R-Ohio)
former Ambassador and Representative Mark Siljander (R-Mich.)
former Ambassador and Representative Andrew Young (D-Ga.)
former Ambassador and Representative Richard “Dick” Swett (D-N.H.)
former Attorney General Edwin Meese (R)
former Attorney General and Senator John Ashcroft (R-Mo.)
former Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury and Reagan Chief of Staff James A. Baker, III (R)

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